STORYBOARD
Storyboards are graphic organizers in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation motion graphic or interactive media sequence.
The story boarding process in the form it is known today, was developed at the Walt Disney studio during the early 1930's, after several years of similar processes being in used at Walt Disney and other animation studios. Storyboards are now an essential part of creation progress.
USAGE
1, Film: a film storyboard is essentially a large comic of the film or some sections of the film produced beforehand to help film directors, cinematographers and television commercial advertising clients visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement.
In creating a motion picture with any degree of fidelity to a script, a story board provides a visual lay out of events as they are to be seen through the camera lens.
2, Theater: a common misconception is that storyboards are not used in theater, they are frequently special tools that directors and playrights use to understand the layout of the scene.
3, Animatics
4, Photomatix
5. Comic books
6, Business
7, Novels
8, Interactive media
9, Software
CREATION
Storyboards for films are created in a multiple step process. They can be created by hand drawing or digitally on a computer. The main characteristics of a storyboard are:
Visualize the storytelling.
Focus the story and the timing in several key frames.
Define the the technical parameter description of the motion, the camera, the lighting etc.
(Source from Wikipedia)
What is a story board?
Once a concept or script is written for a film or animation the next step is to make a storyboard. A storyboard visually tells the story panel by panel, kind of like a comic book.
Storyboards should/will convey some of the following information:
What characters are in the frame, and how are they moving?
What are the characters saying to each other, if anything?
How much time has passed between the last frame of the storyboard and the current one?
Where the camera is in the scene? Close or faraway? Is the camera moving?
Why make a storyboard?
Creating a story will help you plan your animation and story shot by shot. You can make changes to your storyboard, before you start animating, instead of changing your mind later, you will also be able to talk about your animation or stories and show your storyboard to other people to get feedback on your ideas.
How to make a storyboard?
Storyboards are drawn in pencil, you can also take photos or use computer to make your storyboards. The drawings don't have to be fancy, use basic shapes, stick figures and simple backgrounds.
Storyboard Language
Close-up: A close range of distance between the camera and the subject.
Dissolve: A transition between 2 shots, where the shot fades away and simultaneously another shot fades in.
Fade: A transition from a shot to black where the image gradually becomes darker is a Fade Out, or from black where the image gradually becomes brighter is a Fade In.
High Camera Angle: A camera angle which looks down on its subject make it look small, weak or unimportant.
Jump Cut: A rapid, jerky transition from one frame to the next, either disrupting the flow of time or movement with in a scene or making an abrupt transition from one scene to another.
Level Camera Angle: A camera angle which is even with the subject, it may be used as a neutral shot.
Long Shot: A long range of distance between the camera and the subject, often providing a boarder range of setting.
Low Camera Angle: A camera angle which looks up at its subject, it makes the subject seem important, and powerful.
PAN: A steady, sweeping movement from one point in the scene to another.
POV: (Point of View Shot) A shot which is understood to be seen from the point of view of a character within a scene.
Reaction Shot: A shot of someone looking off screen. A reaction shot also can be a shot of someone in a conversation where they are not given a line of dialogue but are just listening to the other person speak.
Tilt: Using a camera on a tripod, the camera moves up or down to follow the action.
Zoom: Use of camera lens to make closely towards the subjects.
(Resource from : www.accad.osu.edu )
Storyboards are graphic organizers in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation motion graphic or interactive media sequence.
The story boarding process in the form it is known today, was developed at the Walt Disney studio during the early 1930's, after several years of similar processes being in used at Walt Disney and other animation studios. Storyboards are now an essential part of creation progress.
USAGE
1, Film: a film storyboard is essentially a large comic of the film or some sections of the film produced beforehand to help film directors, cinematographers and television commercial advertising clients visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement.
In creating a motion picture with any degree of fidelity to a script, a story board provides a visual lay out of events as they are to be seen through the camera lens.
2, Theater: a common misconception is that storyboards are not used in theater, they are frequently special tools that directors and playrights use to understand the layout of the scene.
3, Animatics
4, Photomatix
5. Comic books
6, Business
7, Novels
8, Interactive media
9, Software
CREATION
Storyboards for films are created in a multiple step process. They can be created by hand drawing or digitally on a computer. The main characteristics of a storyboard are:
Visualize the storytelling.
Focus the story and the timing in several key frames.
Define the the technical parameter description of the motion, the camera, the lighting etc.
(Source from Wikipedia)
What is a story board?
Once a concept or script is written for a film or animation the next step is to make a storyboard. A storyboard visually tells the story panel by panel, kind of like a comic book.
Storyboards should/will convey some of the following information:
What characters are in the frame, and how are they moving?
What are the characters saying to each other, if anything?
How much time has passed between the last frame of the storyboard and the current one?
Where the camera is in the scene? Close or faraway? Is the camera moving?
Why make a storyboard?
Creating a story will help you plan your animation and story shot by shot. You can make changes to your storyboard, before you start animating, instead of changing your mind later, you will also be able to talk about your animation or stories and show your storyboard to other people to get feedback on your ideas.
How to make a storyboard?
Storyboards are drawn in pencil, you can also take photos or use computer to make your storyboards. The drawings don't have to be fancy, use basic shapes, stick figures and simple backgrounds.
Storyboard Language
Close-up: A close range of distance between the camera and the subject.
Dissolve: A transition between 2 shots, where the shot fades away and simultaneously another shot fades in.
Fade: A transition from a shot to black where the image gradually becomes darker is a Fade Out, or from black where the image gradually becomes brighter is a Fade In.
High Camera Angle: A camera angle which looks down on its subject make it look small, weak or unimportant.
Jump Cut: A rapid, jerky transition from one frame to the next, either disrupting the flow of time or movement with in a scene or making an abrupt transition from one scene to another.
Level Camera Angle: A camera angle which is even with the subject, it may be used as a neutral shot.
Long Shot: A long range of distance between the camera and the subject, often providing a boarder range of setting.
Low Camera Angle: A camera angle which looks up at its subject, it makes the subject seem important, and powerful.
PAN: A steady, sweeping movement from one point in the scene to another.
POV: (Point of View Shot) A shot which is understood to be seen from the point of view of a character within a scene.
Reaction Shot: A shot of someone looking off screen. A reaction shot also can be a shot of someone in a conversation where they are not given a line of dialogue but are just listening to the other person speak.
Tilt: Using a camera on a tripod, the camera moves up or down to follow the action.
Zoom: Use of camera lens to make closely towards the subjects.
(Resource from : www.accad.osu.edu )
Storyboard Examples
Jane Animation Project - Hunting Sequence
This storyboard is an unusual layout to me, it's got one frame in one line, but with very clear description next to the frames such as how camera moves and which angles. The drawing of the frames are simple and easy-understandable as well.
A simple storyboard made using stick figures
This is a very simple storyboard, the frames are drawn with single lines and shows the figure of the subjects and the surroundings, with the explanation and description around the frames, it should be considered as the first draft of the storyboard.
A storyboard for a TV Western
This storyboard is still very easy-understandable even though there's no context descriptions in it, because the frames are drawn in the details of the character's movements and camera angle with arrows to describe the character moving directions.
(Sample resource from http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/)
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